Survival and quality of life in patients with protracted recovery from cardiac surgery. Can we predict poor outcome?

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Of all the 2256 adult cardiac surgical patients operated upon during a 12-month period from 1st February 1992 in three units, only 162 (7.2%) spent more than 48 h in the intensive care unit (ICU) (median 6 days, range 3-90). There were 47 deaths in ICU, 7 more before hospital discharge, and a further 10 before the study end-point of one year after surgery. All 98 1-year survivors were at home with 86 of them reporting their quality of life, on formal evaluation, to be within the reference ran...

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Authors: Treasure, T; Holmes, L; Loughead, K; Gallivan, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 426-431
• Publication date: 1995-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s1010-7940(05)80077-6
• EISSN: 1873-734X
• ISSN: 1010-7940
• Language: English
• Keywords: Survival Analysis; Humans; Severity of Illness Index; Quality of Life; Life Support Care; Adult; Hospital Mortality; Aged; Models, Theoretical; Female; Postoperative Complications; Critical Care; Length of Stay; Multiple Organ Failure; Follow-Up Studies; Cohort Studies; Middle Aged; Algorithms; Heart Diseases; Male; Prospective Studies; England; Cause of Death